LIBRARIES

1 The "Clarte" ("Light") group — a literary group of former participants in the imperialist war, who founded, under the leadership of Henri Barbusse and others, in 1919 in France the "Republican Association of Former War Participants" ("Association republicaine des anciens combattants") — see in detail Lenin, Works, vol. XXVII, p. 359 and 553, note 165).

Andreas Latzko — writer, Austrian officer, author of a number of books directed against the imperialist war: "A Court for War" ("Friedensgericht"), "Men in War" ("Menschen im Kriege"), "Women During War" ("Frauen im Kriege". Max Hascher Verlag A. L. in Zurich, 1918).

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MEMORANDUM TO N. P. GORBUNOV
19/XI [1921]

To N. P. Gorbunov:

have this review retyped

[by N. K.] Krupskaya's [comments] to the decree on the payment for books and send [it] to Kursky.¹

Lenin.

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¹ In her review, N. K. Krupskaya introduced two additions to the decree: 1. a requirement to ensure supervision by library soviets and reading hut soviets over the proper use of books by libraries and reading huts. 2. Granting the right of free receipt of newspapers to those schools which, by certification of volost, district, and guberniia departments of public education, need them for work with pupils and the population. Decrees on the payment for non-periodical publications and newspapers were adopted in the Council of People's Commissars on November 28, 1921 (see "Collection of Laws and Orders of the Government" No. 77 and in "Izvestiia" Nos. 275 and 276 of December 7 and 8, 1921).